Birmingham hospital trust hires more doctors to ease A&E

16 December 2013 Last updated at 23:00 GMT

A hospital trust has started filling wards with extra doctors after struggling to cope with demands on its A&E department.

The Heart of England NHS Trust has some of the worst A&E response times in England. Figures revealed last week showed it managed to see only 88% of patients within four hours, across its three sites in Birmingham.